Daniel Barenboim Quotes
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If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot.
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So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
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Nobody is gonna love you like you. You're gonna be your best salesman.
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When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!
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When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
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The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles.
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You break her heart, I'll break your neck.
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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The very important thing you should have is patience.
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Desire is the very essence of man.
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Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.
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You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
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There's nothing worse than a director who feels more like a cop than a comrade, so I try to never give orders or create an environment where it's 'my way or the highway,' because actually allowing talented people to bring their originality and insight always brings more depth and complexity than if everyone has to do what you tell them to!
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In sport, if you want to be the best you have to compete against the best - I would much rather have come tenth and be judged against everyone than come first and be judged against just a few.
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
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You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.
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When I was born in 1970 with a rare genetic disorder called spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita (SED), medical science wasn't what it is today and my mum and dad were treated terribly by the medical profession.
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I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.
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When you get to be 103, modernism is a very wide concept.
